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Old February 5, 2017   #29
Andrey_BY
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We are quite old Belarus has got a history of more than a thousand years so far and Minsk the capital of our country has been founded before 1067.
In the Middle Ages Belarusians shared The Great Dutchy of Lithuania/Rzeczpospolita with Polish and Lithuanian people with old Belarusian language has being used as official language And later we went on under Russian Empire seeing like young country of USA was born

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One of my best friends parents were from Russia. We went to same school k thru 8 and then high school. We're friends to this very day. This time frame is from fifties til present. Cold War?. We didn't get the memo.. I didn't realize Belarus was its own sovereign country and different ethnic group and language spoken. .
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